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Quebec hospital produces a sodium fluoride isotope without nuclear reactor
A hospital in Quebec has found a way to ease the impact of the worldwide shortage of medical isotopes by resurrecting an old test that uses an isotope that doesn’t require a nuclear reactor to produce it. The shortage of medical isotopes was caused by a shutdown last month of the nuclear reactor at Chalk […]
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UK: Nuclear development cash released for Capenhurst
Nuclear reprocessing company Sellafield yesterday that is was pushing ahead with plans to speed up the removal of uranium reserves from its Capenhurst site in Cheshire. It is developing two projects that aim to reduce Capenhurst’s overall radioactivity hazards and maximise the value of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) uranium assets at the site. The […]
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Port Hope: UF6 production to resume
The Port Hope conversion facility is getting geared up to resume production of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) after an HF supplier was located. Cameco has signed a new contract with its historic supplier of hydrofluoric acid (HF) under terms that are mutually beneficial to both parties. HF is a primary feed material for the production of […]
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Washington State: Areva celebrates 40 years in Richland with tour
RICHLAND — Bill Bazemore and Don Pederson began working at Areva 37 years ago in the nuclear fuel manufacturing company’s chemical processing unit. Nearly four decades later, the pair still share similar responsibilities — now in Areva’s maintenance department where they control air flow, ventilation and heating. “It’s been a good place to work,” Bazemore […]
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Areva plans uranium enrichment facility expansion
Areva Enrichment Services plans to double the capacity of its Eagle Rock uranium enrichment plant to 6.6 separative work units (SWU) a year. The company told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) it would revise the application to double the plant’s capacity from an originally planned 3.3 million SWU. Areva decided to revise the application to […]
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Port Hope: UF6 production to start again this year, Cameco forum hears
The Cameco Corporation’s uranium hexafluoride (UF6) plant in Port Hope is on target to restart production in the second half of this year, those attending last night’s Community Liaison Forum heard. Andy Oliver, vice-president of Cameco’s fuel services division, told the audience that while no contracts have yet been signed, he anticipates long-term contracts in […]
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TVA awards contracts for $4 billion of fuel, work
Despite a drop in power sales this year, TVA directors today approved supplier contracts valued at more than $4 billion to fuel and maintain the utility’s power plants over the next decade and a half. General Electric landed the biggest contract. TVA agreed to pay GE up to $3 billion through 2024 for combustion turbines […]
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International Isotopes Chooses Site in Lea County, New Mexico
LEA COUNTY, N.M. – International Isotopes has chosen a site in Lea County, New Mexico for a new facility that will create over 100 jobs. Andrews County and a site in Idaho were also in the running. Officials with International Isotopes say the announcement was made in a conference call Monday morning. Steve Laflin, with […]
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Protests as biggest ever nuclear waste load goes to Siberia
Several environmental organisations are protesting at what they call biggest ever delivery of radioactive waste to Russia. The load is being transported from Germany to Siberia for processing. More than 1,200 tons of uranium hexafluoride – a compound left over from enrichment of nuclear power plant fuel – was delivered to St. Petersburg on March […]
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St. Petersburg: Ecologists Decry Arrival of Nuclear Waste
About 30 members of St. Petersburg’s ecological organizations protested on Thursday the transportation of nuclear waste from other countries to Russia. “No to the Import of Nuclear Waste!” read the slogan held by a group of ecologists in front of Avtovo metro station — the area of the city through which trains transporting nuclear waste […]
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